Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/19 3:57 AM, mick crane wrote: hello, what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet connection ? I have pfsense as router connecting to ISP's broadband box. I think pfsense does that DHCP but also I might have names to ipadresses in host files but just for local netwo

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-10-26 at 21:33, Ken Heard wrote: > The tar scripts now look like this. > --- > #!/bin/bash > # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. > echo here > tar -cpzf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-26 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want at this time to thank all of you for taking the time to provide various suggestions as to how to fix the problems I describe in my original post and in my previous thread 'Signs of hard drive failure?' My reason for the thank you is that early M

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread songbird
Peter Ehlert wrote: > I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly > installed... not able to boot. > I too would like such a tool hmm, i have a booting USB stick of stable (before recent release so i'm actually one stable back now :) ). no issues at all booting from it

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread songbird
Brian wrote: ... > Would you please explain what you mean by "...leaving any Local Hard > Drives alone."? i would assume that booting from a USB device which only mounts that device and none of the hard drives unless they are specified in the fstab of the USB system's /etc other standard temp

Re: How to download email messages from Yahoo Groups in Debian?

2019-10-26 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Thank you, but I need some more help. I've downloaded the script, but the README says that I need to supply "the T and Y cookie" and that I should be able to extract them from my browser. My browser is Firefox. I've checked and it doesn't seem to provide a way to extract cookies. Apparently that

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread Bob Weber
On 10/26/19 5:55 PM, deloptes wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: You haven't said what you're going to look at, but in my humble opinion, if you only want to LOOK, not record, a binocular optical microscope with a ring light and under slide illumination option is the way to go. I don't know if a high

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/26/2019 05:55 PM, deloptes wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: You haven't said what you're going to look at, but in my humble opinion, if you only want to LOOK, not record, a binocular optical microscope with a ring light and under slide illumination option is the way to go. I don't know if

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:52 deloptes wrote: > deloptes wrote: > ... > > Rebooted and voila it works. > > > > regards > > Perhaps I should write a howto as I see +1 interested That would be great! As usual, the Devil is in the details! Best regards, -Tom

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 October 2019 14:15:28 Default User wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 03:44 wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:05:21AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Back when all this Political Correctness silliness [...] > > > > I usually stop reading at this point. > > > > -

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
Doug McGarrett wrote: > You haven't said what you're going to look at, but in my humble opinion, > if you only want to LOOK, not record, a binocular optical microscope > with a ring light and under slide illumination option is the way to go. > I don't know if a high magnification microscope like y

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Re: New Services in Systemd on Debian

2019-10-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 21 sep 19, 02:15:41, Pavel Volkov wrote: > > /etc/systemd/system is the perfect place for it, all user config goes there, > and system-provided units or "wants" are placed in /lib, never in /etc. "user" in this context can be confusing since systemd also supports user services, with unit

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 10/26/2019 8:35 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Yep. Something along the lines of > > tcpdump -w data.pcap > > then scp that to your box and > > wireshark data.pcap > > Refinements, of course, possible :-) I'd also suggest giving tcpdump the name of either the internal or external interfa

Re: Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 10/26/2019 02:02 PM, deloptes wrote: Hi, I read some time ago a discussion here about microscope and I am thinking for long time to buy one. I have no idea what I have to look at, so I hope someone would help make the right choice. Here are some of the requirements and questions I have Re

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Recent changes in ssl have resulted in it sometimes emitting "don't fragment" packets that are too big for some PPPoE links and possibly for other sorts of bridge. The solution for me was to set the PPP MTU in my router t0 1400. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Unnecessary packages?

2019-10-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 17:53:45 +, J.Arun Mani wrote: > Thanks for your replies. Disk usage is not an issue for me, so I may > ignore them for now. You have a functional Debian system and chose to install Debian Buster GNOME Edition. Stick with it and stop fussing about installed software you

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-26 Thread Default User
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 03:44 wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:05:21AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > [...] > > > Back when all this Political Correctness silliness [...] > > I usually stop reading at this point. > > -- t > [ salutation censored] Wow. This thread sure "slid on black ice".

Re: Unnecessary packages?

2019-10-26 Thread J.Arun Mani
Thanks for your replies. Disk usage is not an issue for me, so I may ignore them for now. J Arun Mani

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Lee
On 10/26/19, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:57:19 +0100 > mick crane wrote: > >> Problem is there is one site that sometimes it loads sometimes it >> times out. <.. snip ..> > Also try traceroute to the offending site at various times to see if > you get a consistent time or whether there

Good advice on Linux (debian) compatible microscope

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
Hi, I read some time ago a discussion here about microscope and I am thinking for long time to buy one. I have no idea what I have to look at, so I hope someone would help make the right choice. Here are some of the requirements and questions I have Req. 400x zoom is OK, but I saw also o

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > Just did this yesterday on a RHEL server - it actually doesn't matter what > linux is there. It all works the  same way. > > I used EFI so I setup GPT and created the 3 partitions marking the first > (EFI) as bootable. > Format all as required and mount for example > mount /dev/

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Lee
On 10/26/19, mick crane wrote: > hello, > what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet > connection ? > I have pfsense as router connecting to ISP's broadband box. > I think pfsense does that DHCP but also I might have names to ipadresses > in host files but just for local netwo

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 12:33:52 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello, > > What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but > I'm hoping for more. > > I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions, preferably > using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot fro

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
I have tried it, several times, but was unable to get Grub properly installed... not able to boot. I too would like such a tool On 10/26/19 9:33 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: Hello, What I want,  is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but I'm hoping for more. I'd like to format

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > What is different this time, is that I'd like to be able to Boot this from > different Systems, probing their Network, Sound, Video, Keyboard and Mouse > systems on Bootup, but leaving any Local Hard Drives alone.  Existing > systems do this, for example, Knoppix, but it's

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:33:52 -0400 Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello, > > What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), > but I'm hoping for more. > > I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions, > preferably using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot from

Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-26 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello, What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but I'm hoping for more. I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions, preferably using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot from older systems). The Partitions are Root, Swap and Home. So far, so good

Re: Unnecessary packages?

2019-10-26 Thread Joe
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:21:18 + "J.Arun Mani" wrote: > Hi. > > I recently installed Debain Buster GNOME Edition. I found a > lot of apps which are rarely used by me. > 1. Fcitx, Fcitx config - I don't what these apps do and they aren't > even launching. 2. Anthy Dictionary - No use. > 3. Chee

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-26 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Ken Heard writes: > Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it > > #!/bin/bash > # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. > STARTDIR=$PWD > cd /home/ken > tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ > --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowse

Re: Unnecessary packages?

2019-10-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/25/2019 10:21 AM, J.Arun Mani asked questions that don't have short answers. I'll respond with what I hope will be _thought_ provoking questions. He did not describe his background nor frame of reference. What has influenced my viewpoint? 1. Introduced to computing as an engineering studen

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 01:08:10PM +0100, mick crane wrote: [...] > I get it, I should ssh into pfsense and do tcpdump thing and then > analyze file elsewhere. Yep. Something along the lines of tcpdump -w data.pcap then scp that to your box and wireshark data.pcap Refinements, of course,

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-26 12:13, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:57:19AM +0100, mick crane wrote: hello, what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet connection ? Wireshark. Be prepared to learn a bit about networking, though. I usually use tcpdump -w to capture the

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:27:54 +0100 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-10-26 12:19, Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:57:19 +0100 > > mick crane wrote: > > > >> hello, > >> what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet > >> connection ? > >> I have pfsense as router connecting t

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-26 12:19, Joe wrote: On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:57:19 +0100 mick crane wrote: hello, what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet connection ? I have pfsense as router connecting to ISP's broadband box. I think pfsense does that DHCP but also I might have names to ipa

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:57:19 +0100 mick crane wrote: > hello, > what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet > connection ? > I have pfsense as router connecting to ISP's broadband box. > I think pfsense does that DHCP but also I might have names to > ipadresses in host files

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:57:19AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > hello, > what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet > connection ? Wireshark. Be prepared to learn a bit about networking, though. I usually use tcpdump -w to capture the data (no need to run wireshark as root, plu

question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread mick crane
hello, what tests can I do to find out what is happening with internet connection ? I have pfsense as router connecting to ISP's broadband box. I think pfsense does that DHCP but also I might have names to ipadresses in host files but just for local network addresses. I have debian apache on lo

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-26 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:05:21AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: [...] > Back when all this Political Correctness silliness [...] I usually stop reading at this point. -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[OT] Good old times. was Re: Firefox Seems to Have a Mind of It's Own

2019-10-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > I did a small research how it was in the 18th century [...] > I demand that it is brought back, It won't last. I am the proof: > 2 years grammar (means latin language) Check: Per aspera ad astra. > 2 years logic Check: Ex falso quodlibet. > 2 years rhetoric Check: Ich

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-26 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Thu Oct 24 13:48:19 2019 Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >>> Even though in some situations "guys" is claimed to be a >> >>> gender-neutral word, I doubt that everyone thinks of themselves >> >>> as a "guy". And it will be polite to those people to not make >> >>> them choose between doing that or fe

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-26 Thread Felmon Davis
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: "Sie" or "xie" or similar German-derived words just sound ridiculous and made-up, at least to those of us who don't speak German. Dan Ritter wrote: We have enough German-speakers on this list to chime in as to how ridiculou

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

2019-10-26 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:43:25PM +1100, David wrote: > Hi tomas, > > Thanks for your message, I understand your points. Thanks :) [...] > To briefly respond to other points: > > > flame war > > I'm a pacifist. thanks, again :) > > consider responding off-list to be less offending > > It'